Quotes About Medicine

Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease.

I have aging as a disease.

I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.

I want to cure many diseases and save children's lives.

But I think doctors have always been either honest or dishonest.

I am not an expert in medical field.

Mind-body medicine should not be an 'alternative,' nor should complementary and integrative medicine be something doctors are not exposed to during their training.

The bottom line to this is, there are few doctors who have any expertise in chemical exposure.

I have a lot of respect for those in medicine that are trying to extend our lives or help us when we're sick.

To me, politics is an extension of what I do in medicine.

Scientists have made extraordinary advances in understanding the brain and its disorders.

Whether there is spec buying or not is not the greatest factor in the high cost of pharmaceuticals.

I think the extreme complexity of medicine has become more than an individual clinician can handle. But not more than teams of clinicians can handle.

I'm a doctor; we work in teams. I'm very committed to problem solving.

Eighty percent of what doctors do, tech can do at a fraction of the cost - especially your rural doctor in India.

I have dermatologists, Atlas bone adjusters, a doctor that does a Polish technique to make your blood circulate. It heals everything.

I don't believe in technological determinism, especially not in biology and medicine. We have strong laws to keep doctors from monkeying around with humans that will remain in place. It's simply not true that everything that is technologically possible gets done.

Healthcare is becoming part of information technology.

America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.

One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.

Modern medicine has presented us with a Faustian bargain: Our aging bodies can bankrupt our children and grandchildren. We have run into the 'law of diminishing returns' in health care, where we are often doing more and more, with higher and higher technology, at more and more cost, for less and less benefit.

The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to.

Humor was his technique to put his patients at ease, a necessity when your specialty involved cutting other men's scrotums.

A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.